
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he see. ”
Source: The Dark Tower
“He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he see. ”
“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”
Variant: God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Innkeeper's wife, singing a song of prophecies
A Child is Born (1942)
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
Source: Essays and Addresses, Vol. III- Evolution and Occultism (1913)
“I think God would not be the Almighty, the All-Wise, the All-Good, if he were the judge”
As quoted in Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (2002) by Lynn McDonald, pps. 177-179 (Add Mss 45783 ff65-67)
Context: Perhaps it is not true to speak of God as a judge at all, or of his judgements. There does not seem to be really any evidence that His worlds are places of trial but rather schools, place of training, or that He is a judge but rather a Teacher, a Trainer, not in the imperfect sense in which men are teachers, but in the sense of His contriving and adapting His whole universe for one purpose of training every intelligent being to be perfect. … I think God would not be the Almighty, the All-Wise, the All-Good, if he were the judge, in the sense that the evangelical and Roman Catholic Christians impute judgement to him. … Our business is, I think, to understand, not to judge. What He does, as far as we know, to rule by law down to the most infinitesimally small portion of His universe, not to judge.
“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West